Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Basset Lab
Led by Gilles J. Basset · Horticultural Sciences
What we study
The Basset Lab studies how plants make vital energy molecules for photosynthesis and respiration. They use synthetic biology to improve plant bioenergetics and nutritional value.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Plants
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Development and application of synthetic inhibitors of photosynthesis
Creating tools to study and control photosynthesis in plants.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Evolutionary remodeling of ubiquinone biosynthesis in Toxoplasma gondii reveals an essential bi-functional monooxygenase
2026 · Nature Communications
Identifies key enzymes in a parasite's energy-making process.
- Estimation of chloroplast macromolecular complex copy numbers and subunit stoichiometries during the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cell cycle
2026 · The Plant Journal
Measures protein levels in algae cells over a day to understand their metabolism.
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- Maize terpene synthase 8 (TPS8) produces a blend of sesquiterpenes and contributes to defense against pests and pathogens
2026 · Journal of Experimental Botany
Explores how a maize enzyme makes terpenes that help plants resist pests.
- Catabolism of jasmonoyl-isoleucine modulates maize development and defense responses
2026 · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Studies how maize breaks down a plant hormone to control growth and defense.
- Quinol C-methyltransferases from extant species of early cyanobacterial lineages shed light on the emergence of plastoquinone in oxygenic phototrophs
2025 · Photosynthesis Research
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